But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him.